Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for its approach to design that it publicized and taught. The mos [..]

Elaborate and formal architectural style characterized by symmetry and an abundance of sculptured ornamentation. The Beux Arts School in Paris focused on the traditonal aspects of Academic painting.

Wax from honeycombs, used as a medium in modeling, in encaustic painting, in wax varnishes, in etching grounds, as a resist in batik, and other techniques and media.

The ingredient in the paint which adheres the pigment particles to one another and to the ground. It creates uniform consistency, solidity, and cohesion.

Abstract art whose shapes resemble living organisms. The shapes are rounded and graceful appearing and have the contours of plants and animals rather than hard-lined geometric forms. Surrealist Yves T [..]

KEY DATES: 1904 The Bloomsbury group was basically a group of like minded friends with a 'common attitude to life', many of whom had first met at Trinity College, Cambridge at the turn of th [..]

British Museum founded in 1753.The BM holds in trust for the nation and the world a collection of art and antiquities from ancient and living cultures. Housed in one of Britain's architectural la [..]

Italian term meaning workshop or studio and referencing a place where an aspiring Italian artist learns from a master artist. The term also pertains to a workshop where assistants help a painter or sc [..]

It could be said that the first Impressionist was JMW Turner with his 'Rain,Steam and Speed' back in 1844. However Britain's Impressionist movement really took off with the arrival of t [..]

British surrealism aspired to be a radical art movement, founded in 1936 by Paul Nash (1889-1946) Eileen Agar (1899-1991) Emmy Bridgwater (1906-1999) David Gascoyne (1916-2001) Humphrey Jennings (1907 [..]